Producers Stonewall ACTRA
January 22, MONTREAL – Canadian producers stonewalled mediation with ACTRA today, refusing to budge from ‘internet-for-free’ proposals that ACTRA has rejected for the last three months.
“The CFTPA has lost its compass, its common sense, and its ability to close a reasonable agreement,” said Stephen Waddell, ACTRA’s Chief Negotiator.
“ACTRA did everything we humanly could to bridge the remaining issues. The CFTPA/APFTQ simply kept repeating their positions intransigently, even with the assistance of one of the best mediators in the country,” Waddell added.
The two sides met in Montreal with the help of a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Board, Mary Ellen Cummings, acting as a private facilitator.
Waddell said that ACTRA will be considering its approach to this dispute in light of CFTPA/APFTQ’s time-wasting.
Tomorrow the parties will meet again in a Toronto courtroom. “We are very confident of our case,” Waddell said.
